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17 Therefore this is what the Lord says. You have not listened to me by proclaiming freedom for your brothers and your neighbors. So I am proclaiming freedom to you, says the Lord. Freedom to fall by the sword, plague, and famine! I will make you a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth. 18 I am going to make the men who walked between the covenant pieces,[a] but who did not keep the terms of the covenant that they had made in my presence, just like the calf they cut in two and then walk between its pieces. 19 The officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the government ministers,[b] the priests, and all the people of the land who walked between the parts of the calf,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 34:18 See Genesis 15:17 for an example of making a covenant by cutting a sacrificial animal into pieces and then walking between the two rows of pieces as a way of invoking a curse on anyone who broke the covenant.
  2. Jeremiah 34:19 Or perhaps eunuchs